Forgotten time capsule from 1959 contains predictions for year 2000

A time capsule sealed in 1959 was recently discovered in a wall of the Crandall Building in Salt Lake City, Utah. The time capsule contains predictions from the people of 1959 about the year 2000.

SALT LAKE CITY — In 1959, the microchip was introduced to the world and in October of that year the Soviet Union launched Luna 3, the first spacecraft to circle the moon.

A month later a group of Salt Lake City leaders gathered on a corner of downtown Salt Lake City and wrote down their vision of what life would be like in Utah when the century turned, predicting floating cars, moving sidewalks and climate controlled clothes.

The predictions, a few newspapers and one very special promise were slipped into a container and sealed into a wall of the Crandall Building, forgotten until renovations brought the unlikely discovery 52 years later.

"I noticed a box and I thought it was a circuit breaker, but there were no pipes," said building engineer Le Vongsayo, who came upon the time capsule while working to restore the facade of the building on Salt Lake City's Main Street and 100 South several weeks ago.

The time capsule was meant to be opened in 2000 and was placed in the outside wall of  the former First Federal Savings Bank at 78 S. Main. Building owner Robert Crandall said the bank closed the branch's doors in the 1970s, and First Federal was acquired by Washington Federal Savings in 1993. The box was forgotten.

British woman needs help finding her 1952 time capsule

A terminally ill British woman is asking the public for help in finding a time capsule that she helped bury in 1952:

In 1952 Mrs Beer and her classmates at the school in Worcester Park buried the capsule to celebrate the Queen's accession to the throne.

"It was a big deal at the time and I can't understand why nobody else has remembered," said Mrs Beer who was given six months to live after being diagnosed with cancer in October.

"It was supposed to be dug up at the millennium but everyone forgot about it."

A recent attempt to find the capsule using a metal detector failed and Mrs Beer has called for former pupils and teachers who know where it is buried to help her.

Mrs Beer said she came up with the bucket list as it gave her "something to aim for".

1987 time capsule with predictions for 2012 to be opened

A time capsule from 1987 containing the predictions of prominent science fiction authors and scientists, will be opened next month in Los Angeles.

It was 25 years ago, April 1987, at the Writers of the Future Awards event held in New York City that a time capsule was sealed with predictions from several of science fiction’s top writers and America’s top science minds, all answering the question, “What will life be like in the year 2012?”. In the introduction to his epic Science Fiction novel Battlefield Earth, L. Ron Hubbard stated, “Science fiction does not come after the fact of a scientific discovery or development. It is the herald of possibility. It is a plea that someone should work on the future.” So it was only fitting that it would be at a Writers of the Future Awards event that science fiction writers and scientists would come together and offer their vision of what the future would bring.

Metropolitan AME Church buries time capsule

The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. buried a time capsule this week.

The Metropolitan AME Church’s spirited “homecoming” service Sunday concluded with the D.C. congregation’s children placing items important to the church’s 173-year history into a time capsule that will be opened in more than 100 years.

Church members put hymn books and church records into a silver vault, along with photographs from President Bill Clinton’s inaugural prayer service, Rosa Parks’s funeral and the day President Obama and his family came t

“It is so important in the history of African America that we not only preserve our history, but we lift up our future,” said the Rev. Ronald E. Braxton, the church’s pastor. “This time capsule talks about the 173 years that we have been in this city, and we have made a tremendous contribution.”

National Shooting Sports Foundation buries 50 year time capsule

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has sealed a time capsule that is intended to be opened on the organization's 100 year anniversary.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has packed a time capsule with materials that reflect the state of firearms ownership, target shooting and hunting in the year 2011 and that tell the story of how NSSF, the firearms industry’s trade association, has helped promote, preserve and protect those freedoms over the last half century.

The time capsule project is the last major event commemorating NSSF’s 50th Anniversary celebration this year. It was a half century ago this month that NSSF was officially incorporated.

The 1 x 2 x 3-foot composite-material box –stamped “Open in 2061!”– will be on display at NSSF’s headquarters.

Westlake, Ohio seals 100 year time capsule

In celebration of its bicentennial, the town of Westlake, Ohio have sealed a time capsule that's intended to be opened in a hundred years.

Photos, newspaper clippings and more Westlake memorabilia will be sealed inside a steel time capsule at 6 p.m. at City Hall.

And this time capsule is built to last. Historical Society President Lysa Stanton said it will be equipped with argon gas and made of steel, and then placed inside a vault before it’s buried.

Hopefully, Westlake residents will open the capsule on the city's tricentennial in 2111. A sister time capsule will be buried alongside, to be opened in 2036 and every 25 years after that. That way any outdated technology can be updated as needed.

Suburban Chicagoans write messages for future about what old shopping mall meant to them

Residents of Mount Prospect, Illinois were asked to drop notes into a time capsule reflecting on what the old Randhurst Mall meant to them. The mall is currently being redeveloped as Randhurst Village.

The Mt. Prospect Historical Society will bury another time capsule at the new Randhurst Village lifestyle center, but when and where have yet to be decided.

Executive Director Greg Peerbolte said the aluminum rectangular box is more than half full at this point in time after an event at Randhurst on Oct. 22 saw several people drop little notes into the capsule on what the former indoor mall meant to them.

Indiana town opens 1911 time capsule, buries new one for 2111

A time capsule was buried at the Dekalb County Courthouse in Auburn, Indiana, not to be opened for 100 years. The town previously opened a time capsule from 1911 at their Courthouse Centennial Celebration on July 26, 2011.

AUBURN — The hole in the west corner of the DeKalb County Courthouse was sealed Friday — not to be opened for 100 years. It holds a 20-pound, 12-inch cube made of copper and filled with pictures, trinkets, letters and information about the companies, leaders, people and everyday life in DeKalb County.

Wisconsin Technical College buries time capsule with 122 items

Gateway Technical College in Wisconsin buried a time capsule yesterday as part of their 100-year celebraton. The time capsule contains 122 items.

The time capsule, which is part of the college's 100-year anniversary celebration, was buried next to the Century Rock on the east side of campus and contains 122 items, including a US flag that was flown over the Capitol on Feb. 7, 2011, to mark Gateway's Centennial celebration as the first publicly-funded technical college in America.

Time capsules to be interred today at 2:30pm in Barnstable, MA

UPDATE: According to the town of Barnstable's Facebook page, the time capsule ceremony has been postponed until next Thursday, November 17th in front of Barnstable Town Hall.

Two time capsules will be placed in the cornerstone of Barnstable Town Hall today at 2:30pm. They are supposed to be opened in 100 years.

The public is invited to attend a short event on Thursday, Nov.10, at 2:30 p.m. to witness the ceremonial placing of two time capsules into the cornerstone of the northeast corner of Barnstable Town Hall. A new timepiece treasure and a century-old find will soon be stowed away for another 100 years in the bricks and mortar.

In August, an 1896 time capsule was uncovered during the renovation of Town Hall, but markings indicate it was not to be opened for 200 years. The town is honoring the request.

A new time capsule reflecting the present time and life of Barnstable residents will be placed alongside the original capsule with instructions to open both in 2111. Items in the new capsule include essays and pictures provided by Brenna Long's 2nd grade students at BCHMPCS and 5th- and 6th-graders from Susan White and Virginia Turner's classes at the Barnstable Intermediate School.